Premises selling products with 'No Palm Oil' label raided

The Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry raided a convenience store in Precinct 3, Putrajaya yesterday for allegedly selling food products with the words “No Palm Oil” (NPO) displayed on their plastic packaging.

Minister Armizan Mohd Ali said the raid at 11.45am was due to a public complaint the ministry received and from the inspection, the raiding team found various flavours of ice-cream products with NPO wordings.

“All the ice-cream products worth RM897.60 have been confiscated for further investigation.

“The case will be investigated under the Trade Descriptions (Prohibition of Use of Statement, Expression or Indication) (Palm Oil and Palm Oil Goods) Regulations 2022,” he said in a statement today.

If convicted, the party concerned can be fined not more than RM250,000 or jailed for a period not exceeding five years.

Based on the enforcement statistics from March 15, 2022, until May 2, 2024, under the said legislation, he said a total of 5,057 inspections had been carried out across the country on premises at various levels of the distribution chain and of that number, the ministry found four cases.

“Strict action will be taken against any importer, distributor, seller and related parties that sell products from abroad that do not comply with the relevant legislation,” he said.

Armizan said the types of offences include statements in the form of expressions or indications that may discriminate or boycott any products or goods involving the country’s main commodity, which is palm oil.

- Bernama

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